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The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis.
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th-century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated.
In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
©1972 Walter Rodney; copyright 2018 by Patricia Rodney; Postscript copyright 1971, 2018 by A. M. Babu; Foreword copyright 2018 by Angela Y. Davis; Introduction copyright 1981, 2018 by Vincent Harding, William Strickland, and Robert Hill (P)2018 TantorWhat listeners say about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-04-2022
Brilliant.
As relevant today as it was 50 yrs ago. A brilliant examination of why Africa is underdeveloped.
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- Valeria
- 24-04-2020
What I was looking for
It links present with past. Appropriately organised information. It is perfect if you want to know more about African history, since it touches many periods and compares how each region was during each of them. It also states the origin of racism, of the African hunger, of the situation that even now some of these countries are still holding.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-2024
Incredible and Informative
Incredible book. I think most people have a basic understanding of how Europe exploited Africa, but this book really breaks down the details and explains everything in an easy to understand way.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-2021
Insightful
Loved it! It provided very well organised arguments with factual. The author did a thorough investigation to highlight major issues that are underpinning Africa and these are still relevant today.
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- Red Skippy
- 12-11-2021
essential reading about African colonial history
I didn't know much of anything about Africa before listening to this book, and now I understand why this was missing from my western education (including university!). Rodney refers to major incidences and statistics, following the course of capitalism and even individual companies like Barclays bank and Unilever to illustrate the wholesale enslaving and looting of Africa for centuries by the western powers. I do not believe any rational and ethical person can come to any other conclusion than to agree that western capitalism has had a catastrophic impact on African development and living standards after reading this, which is perhaps why a thorough history of Africa was missing from my otherwise competent education. An eye opener
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